Turn The Other Cheek Quotes

We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian doctrine. But if you turn the other cheek, you could be annihilated. So when is it justifiable to defend yourself and take aggressive action in that regard, like dropping drones on people?

Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.

When I’m looking for a leader who’s going to fight ISIS and keep America secure, I don’t want some meek and mild leader or somebody who’s going to turn the other cheek.

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat – I don’t know how long you’re supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work.

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated–but I certainly don’t believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I’m gonna hit you in the other cheek too.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it’s correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct.

If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.